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Southern peanut planters have little economic reason to thank Archdeacon Thompson or Dr. Charles R. Mills of the American Presbyterian Mission to China. Thirty-five years ago, these gentlemen imported four quarts of U. S. peanuts. Half of them were given to two Chinese farmers as the basis of a Chinese peanut crop. One farmer ate his peanuts instead of planting them. The other, however, planted and replanted his peanuts, until now the Shantung Peninsula grows 18,000,000 bu. per annum. The Chinese peanut crop now exceeds even that of this country...
...Bros., Inc. (famed Philadelphia; Manhattan and Milwaukee department store), to Miss Ruth Prince, New Rochelle, N.Y.; at New Rochelle. Three of the six ushers were Gimbels-Ellis, Richard. Benedict; the best man was also a Gimbel-Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg...
...again sweep himself into office, although both times the state went Republican, and in the last case Coolidge ran 600,000 votes ahead of Davis. But Vic? who was farmer and father of 10 chil dren before he was politician, Vic of old Scotch Presbyterian stock, Vic who keeps convicts, mainly ex-murderers as servants in the Executive Mansion, Vic who roars and pounds his desk as if making one unending campaign speech ? induced the people of Ohio to give him some 150,000 more votes than were necessary for his reelection...
Meanwhile, an effort is afoot to have the Presbyterian Church at its next General Assembly legalize the position of Dr. Fosdick as permanent special preacher in a Presbyterian pulpit...
...must to all men, Death came to James Berwick Forgan, in the 73rd year of his life and the 24th of his career as the outstanding figure of the Chicago banking fraternity. Stricken at his desk with heart disease, he was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where a transfusion of his son's blood (James B. Forgan, Jr.) rallied him momentarily but was ultimately unsuccessful in saving his life. He died sur rounded by his family, after singing favorite hymns with his pastor and saying : "I have put up the best fight I could." Forgan...